3/25/2021

Republicans Need to Feel Way More Heat for Their Opposition to New Gun Laws

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Everything you could say about our American gun obsession has been said, repeatedly , and nothing has changed. Now that our time living in t...
3/22/2021

You Cannot Talk About Biden's Border Actions Without Talking About Trump's Gutting of the Federal Government

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Amid the right-wing's newly-found hysteria over the treatment of migrant children who are traveling unaccompanied to the southern border...
3/18/2021

The Real Culture War Is Over Vaccines

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Yesterday, I was talking to a few people about COVID vaccines. Two of us were fully vaccinated, and another was scheduled to get his. One of...
3/12/2021

Random Observations on a Presidential Presidential Address

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1. President Joe Biden's speech to the nation last night could have been a giant victory lap. Having just signed the most significant a...
3/10/2021

One Year On in CoronAmerica (Part 1: Keeping It Together)

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It was a year ago that I finally told my students that we were going to move our class online. Over the two weeks before March 10, student a...
3/06/2021

Grappling with Andrew Cuomo's Scandals

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There is absolutely no reason to feel guilty or bad because you found comfort in New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's daily press briefings ...
3/02/2021

"Fuck Those Dr. Seuss Books" and Other Proper Responses to the Fake "Cancel Culture" Bullshit

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As an honest-to-goodness professor of the literary arts, I have seen your "cancel culture" bullshit so many times before that it...
2/26/2021

Don't Let Republicans Off the Hook on COVID Relief and the Minimum Wage

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In Pennsylvania, 62% of voters in 2019 supported raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. That was consistent with polls from previous years...
2/24/2021

500,000+ Dead Need to Be Piled in Front of the GOP

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This dumbfuck nation has no idea about how deep the post-traumatic stress disorder it's going to have to deal with for the foreseeable f...
2/19/2021

Dead Terrrorist: Rush Limbaugh Wrecked America

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When I heard Rush Limbaugh had finally died, my first thought was "I hope he was screaming in pain when the light switch flicked off....
2/17/2021

Texas Learns That Government Has to Do Something Other Than Restrict Abortion

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In his State of the State address at the beginning of February, Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott laid out five "emergency items...
2/12/2021

Democrats Are Trying to Save the Republicans' Souls, But the GOP Prefers Damnation

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Note on Saturday, 2/13: You could read all of this in past tense now. But it still stands.  In their presentation of the ironclad case again...
2/09/2021

Younger Democrats Are All Out of Fucks to Give for Republicans' Feelings

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Let us say, and why not, that you're a Democrat who came of age in this century and then got elected to Congress. Your adult experience ...
2/03/2021

Republicans Want to Ignore the Trauma of the Capitol Riot Because Most of Them Are Guilty of Inciting It

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I've told this story before, but I'll tell it again. I've had guns pointed at me multiple times. I've been in fights. I'...